On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe
Christopher Hammerly, Eric Mathieu
August 2024
 

The aim of this article is to show that Long Distance Agreement (LDA) in Border Lakes Ojibwe (Central Algonquian) correlates, not with topicality as claimed in past literature, but with evidentiality (direct evidence).
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Reference: lingbuzz/008343
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Published in: Accepted to Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
keywords: long distance agreement, interpretation, perception/cognition verbs, evidentiality, features, ojibwe, algonquian, source of information, epistemic commitment, semantics, syntax
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